Word: commandeering
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...been known about Manhattan's Greenwich Village the past ten years as a sardonic bombaster His tall story of football at Notre Dame (see above) is one of his more amusing less lurid ones. He has the vocabulary of many sciences technical and social, at his command. Until his present emergence as a Techo-economist he was accepted as an entertaining drifter who lived in Village squalor. For some time he conducted "a small business called Duron Chemical Co which made paint and floor polish at Pompton N. J. Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center was a customer. Howard Scott...
...Egypt boiled with indignation last week at a Turkish insult to the fez, favorite headgear of Egypt's fat King Fuad. Years ago Turks abandoned the fez, the veil, the Arabic alphabet and polygamy by command of their progressive dictator, President Mustafa Kemal Pasha. It was Kemal himself, according to irate Cairo newspapers last week, who insulted the fez on Turkey's Independence Day at a banquet tendered by the President at Angora to the diplomatic corps...
...last extremes, became cheerfully apparent when General Litzmann ended his harang as Speaker pro tem, and the Reichstag proceeded quietly to re-elect as its regular Speaker huge Hauptmann (Captain) Hermann Wilhelm Goring, a Fascist who has put on at least 75 Ib. since he took over command of the late, great Baron von Richthofen's squadron of German flying aces...
...Princeton no one is denied admission for lack of money. The Personnel Department, having filled all the positions at its command with those applicants best qualified, communicates with the remaining applicants on its lists and advises them that they would be unwise to register in the University unless their financial position improves sufficiently to carry the expenses they will inevitably contract. There is nothing, however, to prevent these individuals from ignoring the advice of the Department and entering the Freshman Class in the vague hope that money will turn up somewhere...
...left the Army, failed as a banker, was living apart from his family as superintendent of Louisiana Military Academy. He liked the South, Southerners liked him. Though he was no abolitionist, and thought war between the States "all folly, madness, a crime against civilization," he refused a Southern command, went North to enlist. A colonel at the tragi-comedy of Bull Run, he chevied his men so relentlessly they cursed him but kept better discipline than most. His bad-tempered sternness got him the name of "Old Pills"; it was a long time before his men began calling him "Uncle...